Don Quinn, Senior Partner, Founder, Quinn Patton

Harvard-educated attorney, elected ABA delegate, Army veteran, and appellate counsel handling complex legal matters in federal court.

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Don Quinn is an attorney, business advisor, scholar, and military veteran whose work sits at the intersection of law, leadership, public service, and institutional accountability. Don is a Partner and Appellate Counsel at Quinn Patton, LC, a Maryland and Washington, D.C.-area law firm focused on employment law, civil rights, federal-sector employment, and business counseling. His practice includes complex employment disputes, administrative litigation, civil litigation, and appellate advocacy, with particular experience representing federal employees before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Merit Systems Protection Board and in matters involving discrimination, retaliation, disability rights, whistleblower protections, and constitutional and civil rights. Book a no-cost legal consultation with Senior Partner, Don Quinn.

 

He is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the District of Maryland and District of Columbia, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Beyond individual representation, Don advises businesses and organizational leaders on employment practices, workplace compliance, risk management, and the difficult personnel decisions that often sit at the intersection of law and organizational leadership. His work reflects a broader interest in how institutions exercise authority, how systems fail the people within them, and how law can serve as both a constraint on power and an instrument of accountability.

 

Don is active in the organized bar and the broader legal profession. He serves as a delegate to the American Bar Association House of Delegates representing the Bar Association of the District of Columbia and has held leadership roles within the Federal Bar Association, including serving as Chair of its Professional Development Committee. He has also been named a Fellow of the Maryland Bar Foundation. His professional writing and commentary have addressed federal employment law, administrative law, civil rights, constitutional governance, legal ethics, and the rule of law.

 

His interest in law is closely connected to his academic work in religion, ethics, political thought, and the development of Western ideas about law and authority. Don earned a graduate degree in religion from Harvard University, where his work examined religious identity, social justice, and the growing population of Americans who exist outside traditional religious institutions. He is pursuing doctoral research in Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, with work in ethics and practical theology examining the influence of extreme forms of religion on families, relationships, and cultural norms. His broader research interests include natural law, covenant, religious authority, John Locke, and the relationship between theological ideas and modern constitutional government. Before entering the legal profession, Don served in the United States Army and is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. His military service, legal career, and academic work have contributed to a professional perspective shaped by questions of duty, institutional responsibility, individual dignity, and the consequences that follow when systems of authority cease to serve the people entrusted to them. Don also remains engaged in civic, religious, and community leadership in Maryland and Washington, D.C. He has served in leadership at Temple Solel and participates in organizations and initiatives focused on public service, professional development, civil rights, and community life. Across these roles, his work is connected by a consistent concern: how law, institutions, belief, and leadership shape the lives of ordinary people, and what obligations those who hold authority owe to those affected by it.

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